Rosebud opens the year with the amazing Wonderheads - a must-see! There are choir concerts, an Open-Air Music Festival, Artist-in-Training shows, and our incredible Rosebud Theatre line up.
‍
Our 2025 Rosebud Theatre season includes an audience-favourite comedy by Larry Shue -The Foreigner, and a world premiere musical called Dream that we have been developing since the pandemic. The songs are wonderful, and the story is true. By popular demand we’re bringing back Every Brilliant Thing - a celebration of “every brilliant thing” that sustains a young woman through the trials of her and her Mother’s lives. It’s interactive and highly entertaining. In the fall, we’ll introduce the world to a brand new coming-of-age mystery by Krista Marushy called The Green House. I’ve wanted to stage this play since reading a draft of it several years ago. The characters are so beautifully written. And at Christmas a perennial audience favourite - Miracle on 34th Street.
‍
The whole season comes together under the heading “A Season of Belonging.” Every show in one way or another explores a journey towards finding a place where the characters can belong - a place where people believe in them.


Rosebud is such a place. Many have come to find in Rosebud as a place where they belong. It’s their village. It’s their theatre. The relationship between performer and audience is intimate. It’s not only forged on stage, but in visits over a meal in the Mercantile Dining Room and street conversations at sunset or after the show under star-lit skies.

It’s been my privilege to get to know our audience for better than 20 years. There’s nothing more wonderful than the uproarious laughter or teary quiet in the middle of a given show. And then there are the conversations after. Plays are personal. They touch the human heart in ways only stories can. There’s nothing more holy than a gathering of people in a darkened theatre breathing with a gaggle of performers on a lit stage. Thank you to all of you that have made Rosebud a part of your lives. It’s been an honour for this story-teller to serve you over the years.

Morris Ertman, Artistic Director